Mom charged with kids' murders treated at hospital

TAMPA: Police say the wife of a military officer shot and killed her son on the way to soccer practice, then drove to their upscale home and shot her daughter in the head while she studied at her computer.

Afterward, the woman told detectives she killed the teens for being "mouthy."

Police spokeswoman Laura McElroy says Julie Powers Schenecker admitted the slayings after officers found her covered in blood on the back porch of her home Friday morning.

Schenecker, 50, was jailed and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Her mother had called police from Texas because she was unable to reach the 50-year-old woman, who she said was depressed and had been complaining about her children.

Schenecker's husband, Parker Schenecker, is an Army colonel stationed at the headquarters of U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

A CentCom spokesman says the father had been away for several days when the killings happened.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says Schenecker was taken to jail late Sunday morning. She was being treated for an unknown medical condition that existed before her arrest Friday.

She is now out of the hospital and back in jail, but it is unclear when she will make her first appearance before a judge.